Starlight and Storm: The Ascent of Six Great North Faces of the Alps With a Section on the Technique of Mountain Climbing
New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc., 1957.
First Edition. Hardcover.
Translated by Wilfrid Noyce and Sir John Hunt. Technique section translated by Roland Le Grand. With a Foreword by Sir John Hunt. Illustrated with 32 pages of plates, maps and diagrams of the routes.
Rebuffat conquers six classic Alpine peaks by the most perilous routes - included are The North Face of the Grades Jorasses (The Walker Spur & The Central Spur); The Northeast Face of Piz Badile; The North Face of the Drus; The Matterhorn; The Cima Grande de Lavaredo; and The North Face of the Eiger. The climbs are preceded by sections on technique, equipment, and preparation.
Item #9021975-3/4 x 8-3/4", black cloth, glossary, index, illustrated with plates, maps and diagrams.
Creasing to extreme upper corners of a few internal leaves, minor crimping to spine ends, clean of owner's marks, square, crisp, very good + in toned and rubbed dust wrapper with a few short edge-tears, in protective mylar.
Price: $100.00